When it comes to goal-scoring this season, it’s basically Alex Ovechkin and everyone else. He showed his quick-strike ability on Tuesday, scoring two goals less than a minute apart against the Buffalo Sabres:

To give you an idea about the distance between Ovechkin and other top snipers, consider that his 38 goals give him a 10-goal lead as of this writing. Coming into Tuesday, no one else had cracked the 30-goal mark.

Ovi is sick, I don’t care who you support. Oates figured out how to open him up on that new wing and he’s been dirty ever since. Even if you don’t like him because of whatever reason you want to choose, you can’t deny he’s one of, if not the best, goal scorers in the league.

Yeah, there’s no denying that Ovi and Stammer are the two best scorers in the league.

blomfeld - Jan 28, 2014 at 11:09 PM

MOVE OVER CINDY !

Yes, it must now be clearly evident to all that Ovechkin is the absolute ‘best of the best’ and no one comes even remotely close to his ‘supreme’ greatness, including that Girl Scout from Nova Scotia. After all, you just have to look up the word ‘esprit de corps’ in the dictionary and there you’ll find a picture of none other than Ovi himself, replete with his Cro-Magnon features and Soviet-era dentistry smile. This man literally ‘oozes’ with selflessness and his commitment to the ‘group cause’ is beyond refute !

Plus/minus is a team earned stat, not individual. We all obviously know Ovie doesn’t have much of a team around him. He’s being asked to score goals, that’s his job. That’s why he’s shooting the puck more than ever, and isn’t putting up the assists. I know a lot of his haters struggle with common sense, but it’s not rocket science.